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ST. MARYS — Wapakoneta's Nicole Brown darted all over the floor, looking for a crevice of space to get off yet another 3-point attempt and break two school records she's been stalking for a few years now.
Everyone in the gym knew another launch from the 5-foot-6 senior was coming and yet St. Marys couldn't stop her.
Brown set a new single-game Wapakoneta girls basketball record with seven made 3-pointers. Brown scored 23 points to lead the Redskins to a big second half and a 59-39 win on Thursday night at Memorial High School.
Brown also broke the record for most 3-pointers made in a season. That record was previously held by Erica Drexler, the current 7th grade coach at Wapakoneta. Brown now has 58 3-pointers this season, Drexler's record from 2005-2006 was 51.
Brown hit her seventh trey with a hand in her face on the left wing right in front of the Wapakoneta student section, sending the red-clad into a tizzy.
Brown was 7-for-13 from beyond the arc.
"Tonight was pretty special for her," Wapakoneta head coach Rusty Allen said. "She's tied it about four times in her career so far, so it was special for her to finally get this record by herself."
Wapakoneta knocked down 12 treys in the face of St. Marys' 2-3 zone defense and pulled away with a big run early in the third quarter.
"We definitely have some weapons on the outside," Allen said. "We feel like we have four or five girls who can knock that shot down."
Five days after the Riders' zone slowed down New Knoxville, Wapak took advantage of it and drained the dozen three's.
"We have to do what we do best," St. Marys head coach Kelly Fulmer said. "They came out and hit some shots, even when we had hands in their faces."
St. Marys made it a game at the half with an 8-3 spurt in the final minutes of the second quarter. When Paige Dicus sank a free throw with 1.4 seconds left, it sent the teams to the locker room with Wapakoneta's once 10-point lead down to five points.
"I thought we played well offensively in the first half," Fulmer said. "We were really patient with the basketball and took it up strong and got some early buckets."
Kelsey Rohrbach led St. Marys with 13 points on 5-of-7 shooting from the floor. Molly Albert and LeeAnn Bertke each added eight points.
St. Marys tightened the score a little more when Bertke hit an eight-foot runner to start the second half and make it 28-25.
"I was disappointed with our defensive intensity in that first half," Allen said.
Wapakoneta then turned on the full-court defensive pressure and accelerated away with a 15-1 run that put the Redskins up 45-30.
"We made a few minor adjustments defensively," Allen said. "It was just turning the pressure up full court instead of letting them dictate what they wanted to do offensively. We went on that little run where we started our full-court pressure, that was the shot in the arm we were looking for. That mini run carried us the rest of the way."
Wapakoneta outscored St. Marys 31-16 in the second half.
"We were where we wanted to be heading into the second half," Fulmer said. "We just had to execute like we did in the first half and we just didn't get it done."
Wapak shot 7-for-13 from the floor in the fourth quarter.
About the only place the Redskins struggled was at the free throw line, where they went 5-for-14.
Wapakoneta has won the last two encounters and six of the last seven match-ups in the Auglaize County rivalry.
Wapakoneta moves to 5-2 in the Western Buckeye League and 9-9 overall. The Redskins will host Coldwater on Tuesday, Feb. 5 at 6 p.m. and then host Van Wert in a WBL game on Thursday, Feb. 7 at 6 p.m.
St. Marys slips to 3-14 on the season and 2-5 in the league. The Roughriders host Greenville for a rare Monday night game that will have a 6 p.m. junior varsity tip-off. The Riders then host Ottawa-Glandorf on Thursday, Feb. 7 in their next-to-last league contest of the season.


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Hello! This is the website of Ben Ward. It was started in 2004, and this what it looks like right now. Read more about Ben, see his CV, or search this site.
Hello! This is the website of Ben Ward. It was started in 2004, and this what it looks like right now. Read more about Ben, see his CV, or search this site.
I'm a man who rather enjoys the idea of writing and the art of the field more than I act on it. I'm grateful to have read a book that might inspire me to take greater care over writing.
Observations of leaving Goa.
Lately I've had the immense pleasure of co-hosting a radio show with my good friend Simon. Besides being a good deal of fun in and of itself, it's made for a challenging, invigorating shift in how I approach music.
I regularly host games nights. Sometimes we play intricate, grown up games like Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne (with expansions), Ticket to Ride, and the like. Recently we've been taken to playing …Uno. Here are some notes on why, and the large extended ruleset we built up to wonderful effect.
This week's events surrounding NSA surveillance triggered some cynicism in the tech industry, but also carelessness and even hypothetical enthusiasm for the massive, untargeted collection of data by a government, and I find that quite weird. Along with the ever-present privilege bias of the place, it set me thinking about how desensitised we as developers are to the entire practice.
We need to concede that though we can maintain the paths of URIs over the lifetime of a service, most domain names are unavoidably ephemeral. A two year registration to host a joke, a fifteen year registration to build a company. All will eventually be resold. We need to not fight the ephemerality. We need to look at the very heart of the web and apply the concept of the Wayback Machine to it.
Compliance means establishing routine. Settling in. Living in London, as I otherwise might under other circumstances. Not fretting over events outside of my control. It means finding comfort in these surroundings, and shedding the playful idea that you can go for weeks pretending to be a Londoner. After Christmas I needed my space, I needed to decompress. This year I did that in London.
I rather like the cold. I don't like being cold, but I find great comfort in being warm whilst the world is cold around me. Scarves and woollen jumpers and thick pea coats and open fires. Watching your breath in the air while feeling snug all at the same time.
So it is that I find myself starting 2013 in London, rather than my regular location of San Francisco. Back on December 19th I stopped by the US embassy for a routine update to the H1-B stamp in my passport, but now I'm still here, having been held up in some additional processing with no specified duration, and very little information upon which to estimate the delay. Here are my thoughts on coping with the simultaneous upset of missing San Francisco, and excitement of being stranded in one of the greatest cities in the world.
Throughout 2012 I got to enjoy writing regularly for The Pastry Box. In illustrious company I got to join in the great pleasure of writing for an audience, writing to a deadline, and having people give me feedback on my drafts. I had a really really good time doing it, so here's a short reflection on the work now the year is done and Pastry Box is handing off to new authors.


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Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Namesake comes an extraordinary new novel, set in both India and America, that expands the scope and range of one of our most dazzling storytellers: a tale of two brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past, a country torn by revolution, and a love that lasts long past death.
Born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other in the Calcutta neighborhood where they grow up. But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead. It is the 1960s, and Udayan—charismatic and impulsive—finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty; he will give everything, risk all, for what he believes. Subhash, the dutiful son, does not share his brother's political passion; he leaves home to pursue a life of scientific research in a quiet, coastal corner of America.
But when Subhash learns what happened to his brother in the lowland outside their family's home, he goes back to India, hoping to pick up the pieces of a shattered family, and to heal the wounds Udayan left behind—including those seared in the heart of his brother's wife.
Masterly suspenseful, sweeping, piercingly intimate, The Lowland is a work of great beauty and complex emotion; an engrossing family saga and a story steeped in history that spans generations and geographies with seamless authenticity. It is Jhumpa Lahiri at the height of her considerable powers.
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month, September 2013: But for its lyrical, evocative scenes of life in the Calcutta neighborhood in which her heroes grow up, Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland could be set anywhere, in almost any time. At the center of this heartbreaking story are two very different brothers. Udayan, the younger by 15 months, is passionate, idealistic and ripe for involvement in the political rebellion in 1960s India (not all that different from his American counterparts of the same era.) Subhash is the "good brother," the parent-pleaser, who goes off to study and teach in America. But when Udayan, inevitably, ends up a victim of his self-made political violence, Subhash steps in and marries his dead brother's pregnant wife. His is the proverbial good deed that will never go unpunished; Subhash soon becomes a victim of his own goodness. As always, Lahiri's prose is lyrical and rich and her story is steeped in history, but in this book (more perhaps than The Namesake, her other novel) the issues raised are more universal and the plot more linear. Competitive siblings, parental love, commitment to belief and family, these are the topics one of our most brilliant writers addresses in what is at once her most accessible, and most profound, book yet. --Sara NelsonAbout the Author:
JHUMPA LAHIRI is the author of Interpreter of Maladies, awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Hemingway Award; The Namesake; and Unaccustomed Earth, a #1 New York Times bestseller and a New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2012. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and 2 children.
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"Try it on for me, baby. One last time," I pleaded.
When my husband slipped on the teeny cutoff "jorts" (that's fancy for jean shorts), so short that they exposed the pocket lining, I had to grab the wall to hold myself up. I could do this. I was strong enough.
Then came the white "wife-beater" crop-top. The jagged cut was so ambitious that it fully revealed his belly and half of his man-nipples.
That's when I burst into tears.
"No!" I stomped. "Please, no. This can't be happening."
"Aimee, pull yourself together. This needs to happen. You will be OK," he said, the earnestness of his voice a violent contradiction to his attire.
I remembered this outfit. We named it "Gus." My husband had worn it five years ago to the most offensive theme party ever, my friend's friend's "To Catch a Predator" Christmas party. Horrible. Gus had a thin mustache and full lamb chops. I would miss Gus.
My husband grabbed the neckline of his top, which was kind of simultaneously the waistline, too, and he pulled -- Hulk-like -- and ripped it down the middle. I felt my heart rip with it. He wadded it up and smashed it into the large trash bag that stood, brimming full, between us.
"It's gone now," he said.
I've never considered myself a hoarder. I don't even have any cats. I have watched the hoarders reality shows and wondered how -- how does that happen?
Well, unless they have an addiction to costumes. I get that.
I had 15, 45-gallon storage containers packed and stacked with more costumes than the Ritz. But I didn't have a problem. The sheer number of aprons I owned and refused to part with were negatively affecting my relationships. But they were practical. And amusing. What if I needed them some day?
This was a longtime-coming spring cleaning. I had no problem tossing my boxes of old love letters, and I definitely didn't hesitate to chuck the photos of my husband's ex-girlfriend without asking him. The box of shot glasses I collected from every country I've visited since age 18? Smash it. Even most of my daughter's old baby clothes that everyone warned me would emotionally hang me. Gone. Well, except her tutus. And alligator suit. Those, I needed to keep.
Along with every costume I'd ever worn or thought about wearing or thought about thinking about.
I had hunted hard for that neon ski suit. I'd invested a lot of glue gun to affix those 250 bells to that Christmas apron. And, moreover, these outfits made me laugh. They symbolized a fun time in my life, before I got so old and stressed out and boring, with my blazers and vacuum cleaner with the detachable stair hose and quinoa.
Parting with my costumes felt like giving up on being silly, and that felt a lot like growing up. Trading the funny factor for practical organization hurt like growing pains. Inevitable, I guess, yet uncomfortable.
Hence, my tears.
I didn't realize how much emotion I had been wrapping around my sequined prom gowns and wig collection.
And I recognize how ironic it is to cry over something because it's so funny, such as a clip-on beard. It clips on to your nose. Your nose! Oh, the sadness.
It's odd, the objects that end up meaning the most to us. You can try to explain it, but our reasons run deeper than logic, and unpredictably, too.
For some of us, we cling to the onesies our babies wore, or old photos, or dried flowers, or awards, or the T-shirt our grandpa gave us before he died. For others, it's stonewashed "jorts" and a trucker hat. Or cats. Or even emptiness.
Who am I to judge? I cried about "jorts."
I am proud to say I made major progress toward unchaining myself from my costume collection.
I now have only 14, 45-gallon bins.
And I've bought only three replacement aprons so far. This week. You should see them. They're a hoot. If only they had more bells.
Read more stories from the weirdest city in America, Boulder, Colorado, here: Only In Boulder. This story originally appeared in the Boulder Daily Camera.


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|Obama's Victory Speech Translated
After the Supremes approved Obamacare last week, the President gave a speech. I think it needs de-coding.
Obama: Today's decision was a victory for people all over this country...
De-coded: It's a victory for central planners, not "people". One thing I've learned in 42 years of reporting is that centrally planned bureaucracy kills innovation, increases costs, and undercuts personal liberty.
If you're one of the more than 250 million Americans who already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance...
Unless your insurance company, like Principal Financial, leaves the business, because you've made it bad business. Then people lose their policy.
This law will only make it more secure and more affordable.
It's impossible to do both.
Because of the Affordable Care Act, young adults under the age of 26 are able to stay under their parent's health care plans...
That will make insurance cost more.
...A provision that's already helped 6 million young Americans.
And made insurance cost more.
And because of the Affordable Care Act, seniors receive a discount on their prescription drugs - a discount that's already saved more than 5 million seniors on Medicare about 600 dollars each.
Even rich seniors get a handout. According to Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), ObamaCare will cost taxpayers $2.6 trillion in the next 10 years.
These provisions provide common-sense protections for middle class families, and they enjoy broad popular support.
True, because people like "free" stuff.
If you're one of the 30 million Americans who don't yet have health insurance, starting in 2014 this law will offer you an array of quality, affordable, private health insurance plans to choose from.
There were already plenty of options for them, including Medicare and charity. But we in government are only happy if it's all centrally planned.
Now, you'll get to "choose" from a whole "array" of mandated expensive and mediocre healthcare "options."
They won't be able to charge you more just because you're a woman.
That's right. They'll just charge everybody more in higher premiums and higher taxes.
But that's nuts! Women visit doctors more than men. Women consume more healthcare.
Not charging women more for health insurance is like not charging Charlie Sheen more for property insurance. People who incur higher costs pay higher insurance rates or insurance doesn't work.
If you're sick, you'll finally have the same chance to get quality, affordable health care as everyone else.
Quality? Affordable? Without a market, how would we know? Quality and innovation come from market competition. That pretty much stops with central planning. Canadians get "free" healthcare, and they have the privilege of waiting 23 hours to see someone at the ER, as opposed to the 4 hours Americans have to endure.
And if you can't afford the premiums, you'll receive a credit that helps pay for it.
And you will be taxed for that. The bill raises premiums by up to 50% -- that's $1,500 for individuals, and $3,300 for families -- according to a study by Blue Cross Blue Shield (BSBA).
Today, the Supreme Court also upheld the principle that people who can afford health insurance should take the responsibility to buy health insurance.
Should take responsibility? No. The Supreme Court ruled that the you must buy insurance because the Feds say so. That's not "should take responsibility", that's force.
...If you ask insurance companies to cover people with preexisting conditions, but don't require people who can afford it to buy their own insurance, some folks might wait until they're sick to buy the care they need...
We still will. The penalties cost less than insurance. This will drive private insurance companies out of business. Then we will be stuck with government care. Maybe that was the intention all along.
In fact, this idea has enjoyed support from members of both parties, including the current Republican nominee for President.
True. Although he imposed it only on one state. We have 50. Experiments at the state level at least allow comparison. And some freedom. Also, when Obamacare passed, there was not "support from both parties." No Republicans voted for the law and Mitt Romney promises to repeal the law if he gets elected.
...I didn't do this because it was good politics. I did it because I believed it was good for the country.
I believe you. Statists think that big intrusive complex government micromanagement is a good thing.They think that government can solve our healthcare problems. I say, "No They Can't."
And now is the time to keep our focus on the most urgent challenge of our time: putting people back to work, paying down our debt, and building an economy where people can have confidence that if they work hard, they can get ahead.
But Obamacare works against all those things. It discourages those who do work from hiring people. It makes it harder to pay down our debt. This study predicts that the healthcare law will add $530 Billion to the national debt in just 10 years.
...when we look back five years from now, or 10 years from now, or 20 years from now, we'll be better off because we had the courage to pass this law and keep moving forward.
We'll be better off if we have the sense to repeal it. Government doesn't know best. Central planning, federal mandates, and government controls are a fatal conceit of an arrogant political class. Mr. President, at Harvard Law School, you were taught that you can manage life though paper and procedure. But that is a lie.
John Stossel is a longtime consumer and investigative reporter, author and columnist. He is a commentator on Fox News and Fox Business and hosts his weekly show, "Stossel," on Fox Business. His latest book, No They Can't: Why Government Fails - But Individuals Succeed was published by Threshold Editions in April.
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Artist Share Releases Jon Cowherd's Debut Album "Mercy." Featuring Brian Blade, Bill Frisell & John Patitucci. The recording highlights a collection of 11 compelling original compositions by Jon Cowherd.
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I realized something just now; I've never actually summited a mountain in the winter with considerable snow on it. Granted, I dont try very often and usually stick to the snowless lower elevation stuff in the winter months, but I never reach my destination when I slap on the snowshoes if I do try.
For example: Two weeks ago I planned on a short loop (<6 miles, 2k EVG) that included 3 small peaks below 10000 feet. I didn't expect too much snow, but brought along snowshoes just in case. When I got to the trailhead, there was on average of a foot of snow difted across the trail. About a quarter mile in, I lost the trail and all desire to continue, then walked down the road a few miles with my tail between my legs.
Anyone else just get in that 'F it' mindset when dealing with snow? I'm certainly not like that in the summer, I'll walk 5 miles through rain to get to some distant lake or ranked point, but give up really easily in the winter.
Should I find easier destinations to start out with, then work my way up? Before I was thinking I could just blow off the learning curve with winter climbing and attack mountains like I normally would, but now I'm not so sure.
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WASHINGTON No more Mr. Nice Guy.
That was the message that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's No. 2 sent to mortgage servicers attending an industry conference on Wednesday. Steven Antonakes, the agency's deputy director, said that servicers have had more than a year to prepare for a reform rule that took effect last month and suggested the CFPB would move quickly and harshly against violators.
Antonakes acknowledged that the agency has previously suggested it would be tolerant of mortgage servicing companies so long as they were making a "good-faith effort" to comply with the rule, but he warned that such allowances only extend so far.
"A good-faith effort, however, does not mean servicers have the freedom to harm consumers," Antonakes said. "It has felt like 'Groundhog Day' with mortgage servicing for far too long. Please understand, business as usual has ended in mortgage servicing. Groundhog Day is over."
Antonakes' speech was a clear sign that the agency has shifted from its previous message of forbearance to a more hard-line stance regarding the mortgage servicing rule, which went into effect Jan. 10. (The speech was limited just to servicing, and did not appear directed at bankers still seeking to comply with other new regulations, such as the 'qualified mortgage' and 'ability to repay' rules governing underwriting.)
"My message to you today is a tough one," Antonakes said in prepared remarks before the Mortgage Bankers Association's national mortgage servicing conference in Orlando, Fla. "I don't expect a standing ovation when I leave. But I do want you to understand our perspective."
The new mortgage servicing rule requires clearer monthly statements and stricter timelines in responding to borrowers. It also bans servicers from dual tracking loan modifications and foreclosure procedures, as well as using force-placed insurance as a regular practice rather than a last resort.
Antonakes defended the rule, saying servicers have had months to bring themselves into compliance and that the agency has made changes in response to industry complaints.
"Servicers have had more than a year now to work on implementation," Antonakes said. "We put out plain-language summaries of the rules and posted video guidance. In addition, as we became aware of critical operational or interpretive issues with our rules, we addressed them."
The speech also made it clear that CFPB officials are frustrated with the mortgage servicing industry's lack of progress in cleaning up its mistakes. It is still widely regarded as rampant with issues, including poor documentation practices, wrongful foreclosures on homeowners and resale problems that make it nearly impossible for borrowers to track down their loan.
More than five years after the financial crisis, Antonakes noted, one in 10 homeowners are still underwater on their mortgages and that "two million households are at high risk of foreclosure."
"Nearly eight years have passed and I remain deeply disappointed by the lack of progress the mortgage servicing industry has made," he said. "In fairness, there have been some improvements. Since 2007 nearly 6.8 million loans have been modified. But despite these advances too many customers continue to receive erratic and unacceptable treatment. Our nation's mortgage servicers manage a debt portfolio of nearly $10 trillion for millions of American homeowners. This kind of continued sloppiness is difficult to comprehend and not acceptable. It is time for the paper chase to end."
Antonakes said the CFPB would be paying "exceptionally close attention" in making sure servicers send all the information and documents of a loan when it's transferred to another servicer.
"We're going to hold you to that. Servicing transfers where the new servicers are not honoring existing permanent or trial loan modifications will not be tolerated," he said. "There will be no more shell games where the first servicer says the transfer ended all of its responsibility to consumers and the second servicer says it got a data dump missing critical documents."


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Dr. Alfred Styles watches Tony and Doug swirl through the time crystals in the vortex and we hear the familiar music used. There is no opening narration. The boys land, flipping over, on sand in what appears to be a vast canyon. A man in a blue tech uniform walks up behind the older Styles and shoots him. There is no one else in the control complex of the time tunnel. The scientist falls onto one of the controls and this causes Tony and Doug intense pain. They begin to shake and then fall on their backs and sides. Tony yells over and over, "You're killing us!" The tech puts a small device inside a computer wall unit near the side of the main consoles. A voice from security calls, checking on the doctor at 10:30--security check 21-22. When he doesn't answer, the security calls a Red Alert. Men run over the bridges--yes, again! Lots of military men run. (First, this is the first time we see another scientist besides Ann, Ray, Kirk, or Jerry manning the controls---and it is also the first time we see only one person in the complex--a very unlikely situation as we've seen them in the tunnel later than 10:30 in other episodes--such as PIRATES OF DEADMAN'S ISLAND; why one lone scientist would be there is kind of silly; at first, I thought perhaps this was a second time tunnel in the same complex---another one monitoring Tony and Doug).
Jiggs, Ann, Kirk, Ray, and others run into the time tunnel control room. Jiggs puts them on maximum security and seals the exits out of the complex. They hear Tony yelling, "You're killing us!" The tunnel, he calls, is out of control! This is the end of the cliffhanger. Ray checks--an oscillation effect is tearing the boys apart but he stabilizes it. Ann checks the psychological condition readings--they are stable now (shouldn't that be physiological?) also. The killer runs in (gee, why didn't he just go into the time tunnel when he had the chance--perhaps, reasonably enough--he didn't want to get part of the oscillation effect that Tony and Doug were suffering). The killer shoots at the guards, Jiggs, and the General, running across the banks and around back. He runs past Ann and grabs Ray, "Halt or I'll kill him!" He activates the tunnel for himself, Ann yelling he'll lose Doug and Tony. The killer uses Ray as a shield, shoves him into Kirk, Jiggs and the men, then runs into the tunnel shaft, eluding them all. The tunnel activates and bursts are heard.
Act One opens with Herrman music from GARDEN OF EVIL and KINGS OF THE KHYBER RIFLES as Ray and Ann scan to find the killer. They find a notation Alfred Styles made--a location fix on Tony and Doug. Jiggs discusses with Kirk about the situation: the man who killed Al is called Raul Neman--he came to work a year ago. A search of his room, Jiggs goes on, revealed microfilm and instructions from his principals. He was to take a leave of absence in 24 hours. While Ann and Ray find out the boys are in 1547 in Grand Canyon, Arizona, Kirk moves back to them. Jiggs coughs to get his attention again and reveals a decoded message he found in Neman's room: he's planted a small nuclear device to destroy the tunnel after he's completed his espionage. Kirk asks Jiggs to evacuate--the bomb could off sometime after midnight. When they tell Ray and Ann, Ann says they cannot evacuate, "Don't you see, our only hope is for Doug and Tony to find Neman and tell them where he hid the bomb!" Kirk tells them it is too dangerous and he can't ask for volunteers. Ray insists he is staying and Ann insists she will also. Ray repeats to Kirk that he should ask all the other techs and scientists in the complex, "Ask them, General." Kirk tells them the situation and none of them choose to leave (among these there seem to be four female lab coated scientists, and the old man who reappears in RAIDERS, only to die in it). When they all choose to stay, Kirk appears to smile slightly. He wants Jiggs to start a search. The visual image is unstable but they make voice contact. Kirk explains to the boys--there is a bomb and a timing device in the tunnel and to find Neman and make him tell them is their only chance. Doug nods, "It's our only chance too." Tony agrees, "If the Time Tunnel blows up, we'll never get back. They wonder where to look, Doug saying, "He can be within 100 yards of us, we'd never find him." Tony suggests they let him find them by building a fire. Ann finds the fix slipping out of phase--especially the one on Neman. As Tony sneaks up on him, up on a ridge of rock, overlooking their fire, Neman vanishes as they almost struggle. Tony thinks the tunnel transferred him. Kirk orders them to send Tony and Doug after Neman--if they can. The boys are sent and appear in a futuristic hallway lined with six sided shapes on all the walls and floor. A six sided screen blinks on and they see a silver capped, silver faced man who warns them not to move. Doors slide open, opening one of the designs (an impressive set by the way). The silver faced man and another with a bubble-like face and holding some kind of laser rifle, come out of the doorway opening and move right at them!
Act Two begins with the main being telling them to follow. In the tunnel complex 200 volunteers look for the bomb. Jiggs and Kirk figure since Neman couldn't pass through the gate before midnight (isn't anyone ever allowed out of the complex?) and he'd have to drive three hours away to avoid fallout, the bomb must be set for 3 AM or so. Kirk orders search reports every 15 minutes. Ann and Ray try to find out how far Neman advanced into time. Tony and Doug see part of the city through a screen or window (?). It is an adequate city looking like a bee hive but we've seen much better before and after from Allen shows and even on STAR TREK, the original. Doug and Tony pass workers who have their faces covered with dark hood-masks. Doug comments the city is like an enormous bee hive. They are brought into a room by the lead man who tells them his name is Vokar and his society is the ultimate human society. He won't let them question him but asks them questions. Tony tells him they came through time. Vokar tells them, "You have arrived in the most glorious era of man's existence." Doug asks, "How do you reckon time?" He tells Doug he needn't bother with such things now---they will be given suitable work and quarters. When they are, Doug says, "Some thought, some era." A worker comes in and is revealed to be a short girl wearing a honey colored cap, her face honey colored as well. She tells them her name is Z24A19--Zee they call her for short. She has brought food for their 8 day work period--a diet ordered by the Masters--rulers of this complex. They question her and find out Neman has been among them for ten years. Doug whips up his usual answer for puzzling time paradoxes, "Maybe we've gone through a time warp." They ask her for help in finding Neman. Doug mentions if they don't it could mean trouble. When she further tries to understand, Tony says something which reveals how he feels about Ann, Ray, and Kirk, "It means something terrible will happen to people we love unless we find him." Zee asks what is love; Doug states she doesn't relate to them in any way and Tony says, "She doesn't relate to anything." Zee explains (I think she's doing a better job than Vokar in relating) her genes were selected by the population control reservoir and treated by the Masters for work (this sounds a bit like the LOGAN'S RUN series of novels). The Masters have always been and it is her purpose to serve them. The boys figure all the beings here are like bees working for a hive for the welfare of the queen--workers, soldiers, queens. Vokar comes into the room. The Master has summoned them. Tony runs at Neman upon entering the main control room (later called the teleport room--wonder why when they don't have a time teleporter yet). He tries to grab Neman who is wearing a silver cap. A silver Master is behind him--the Magistrate and is not concerned with crimes committed in other times and other places. He order the boys to reconcile with Neman who is overworked. The boys are to help him, to assist him. Doug asks what if he and Tony refuse and in answer Vokar shoots him down with a ray gun. Neman pushes the Magistrate to kill both Tony and Doug but he tells him to use the boys as he will, later they will see about killing them. Later in their dark room, Zee gives the pair oxygen using some kind of breather device. She explains that the ray was just first stage reminder of purpose. Neman came ten years ago and Doug claims they did come through a time warp--Neman arrived ten years before Tony and Doug (nice twist in the story and totally unexpected). Zee tells them Neman is building a mechanism and Doug figures it is one for time travel. Zee tells them they cannot leave the room, showing them a forcefield is on and she has the key. Tony asks, "Why warn us?" Zee says, "I like you. Time travel is necessary to spread the glory of our civilization throughout all time and bring new power to the Masters." Tony thinks they might succeed. We hear THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL music. Neman comes in and warns them that to hurt him would bring punishment. He tells them the time tunnel was blown to atoms a million years ago. It is one million AD. The bomb was set to go off at 3:05 AM. Neman reminds them that now, only he can return them to their own time, if they help him.
Ann cannot locate Tony and Doug. She had been searching a thousand years from the last fix. The break in the power system gave them a power surge but now they can look farther ahead. Kirk says, "We've only have two hours, maybe less."
Act Three starts as Kirk plans to abandon the tunnel in less than two hours. Tony and Doug tell Neman they will work with him to make their own time tunnel. Neman tells them he was a good technician but nobody recognized that. When Tony comments that someone must have, to hire him as a spy, Neman scoffs at his former employees. Tony asks what kind of period preceded this one and Neman tells him, "We are not here for a lesson in history." Time travel is a lost art for these people. Neman wants to start the first experiment and has soldiers bring a worker in. Tony and Doug are shocked he will use human subjects. Neman explains that he cannot use any animals---they have been extinct for 100 thousand years. He adds, "One makes due with what is available." When the mask is removed, they see it is Zee! Her genes have been deemed defective, one way or another she has to be destroyed. She is put into a capsule (not unlike the dome to the capsule in SECRET WEAPON) and it is closed and lights up. Tony runs and gets her out and tells her, "Get out of here!" She runs out as he is shot by ray. Doug checks him. Vokar tells him Tony is just stunned. Neman scolds Vokar. Later in their quarters, Tony sits up. Doug tells him they shouldn't have tried to help Zee--she hasn't a chance, besides the tunnel needs them to find out more about the bomb. Doug explains, "We're going to have to forget about her." Tony, instead, promptly forgets about the forcefield and runs into it (and we hear music from WILD ADVENTURE on LOST IN SPACE--the part when they encounter the Earth's sun--also used in END OF THE WORLD more extensively). Tony recovers quickly and the two try to figure out how to short the forcefield--using the idea of the key the girl had. It probably works on a magnetic field principal and Doug feels the basic laws of physics haven't changed--they should be able to divert the gogging device (or something that sounds like that). There is a maze like backdrop in their room which seems to lead to a hall or some other room, blocked off to them.
Just then, Ray calls, making voice contact. Kirk takes over and explains to them--they must find out the time. Kirk says, "You've got to get out of that forcefield. Make him talk!" Ann talks to them about moving them. Doug feels anyplace would be better than the one they are in now. They find a coil of wire but they need wood. Wood probably isn't used any more. Tony noted everything seems to be made out of molded plastic. Doug finds a bit of coil in a light, even though the light is solar energy powered via radio waves, it has a coil--radio waves still need wires. They don't recognize the material it is but use it and throw it through the force screen. The lights go off and the field is out. Zee is hiding in the halls, making her way back to Tony and Doug to let them out. They find her and she tells them she was coming to save them, touching Doug's arm and hand. She knows a way to get to the teleport room where Neman is--a way to reach it past guards. Workers move past them but don't see them. They get to the doors and sound a doorbell type mechanism. They go in as we hear more music from GARDEN OF EVIL.
In the teleport room, Tony and Doug confront Neman. Zee locks the doors. Neman tries to stall them by telling them they could be killed for coming into this room. Neman throws a chair at them and calls for Vokar. Doug grabs him. Neman pulls a rod of some kind from the wall and tells them he will kill them himself (this guy sure changed his mind a great deal). Soldier and Vokar arrive outside and Vokar runs into a forcefield made by Zee. Slaves come running in (from where? Hey!!!) to the teleport room (?). It is one minute before the time tunnel can transfer Tony and Doug and Neman. Soldiers shoot their way into the room, blasting the door mechanism. Vokar comes in just as Neman was about to tell them where he hid the bomb. Tony and Doug win against Neman and grab him, trying to use him as a shield against Vokar and the bubble faced soldier. As time tunnel counts down, Tony and Doug toss Neman into Vokar. Zee moves back. There is no reaction to the building hum of the tunnel. Kirk orders them to try it in a series. Tony and Doug vanish. Then Neman. Then Vokar and finally Zee!
Ray confirms they are in limbo. Ann finds out a fourth person was transferred. It was a simultaneous transfer she says, then corrects herself--almost simeltaneious. She looks, "They're going back in time...back...back.." then she notices that five people were transferred! Ray reads them at one million BC (any Rachel Welch's around or Victor Mature's?). He claims they are in the Pliocene Period. Kirk says they are as far back as they were forward.
A pre-history lesson: the Pliocene was not a Period but an Epoch. at 65 million years ago there were only six dinosaur genera. This would suggest that in 1 million BC dinosaurs were already extinct. Thus, Pliocene was not correct unless the info most archaeologists believe is wrong. Also, there were a few dinosaurs found alive after 65 million years ago in Australia. Additionally, at least one book has been written telling about dinosaur footprint fossils which have an early man's footprint inside it! Such fossils have been found in Australia and Canada. So who can tell, perhaps man and dinos did walk the Earth together somehow!
Tunnel only gets sound contact. Kirk says, "Well, if they don't find out where that bomb is hidden within an hour, all of us are as good as dead."
Tony is moving through a fogged jungle. Doug, his shirt ripped, is moving also---coming from a different way. They meet up with each other. Doug tells him he's been clawing his way through this jungle for hours. It is like a gigantic hot house. Tony wonders if it is an island. He adds he'd settle for the Amazon as long as it was the 1968 Amazon. They laugh but a giant lizard towers over them and gives chase. TO ALL WHO WRITE OR CRITICIZE WITHOUT WATCHING---THERE IS NO LINE IN THIS EPISODE CONCERNING TONY SAYING TO DOUG SOMETHING ABOUT HIM REMEMBERING OR KNOWING HIM THIS TIME. That dialogue was in the unaired version of the pilot. Here, it was dubbed out.
Act Four opens with Tony and Doug stopping from their run. They figure they are a million years back. Doug says, "You know Tony, we might be the only humans left alive on Earth." They look for Neman who is in the jungle also. Vokar shoots at the giant lizard dino alligator type that is near him (this scene uses JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH music quite nicely).
Kirk tells everyone to evacuate, calling off the search and ordering all the volunteers to the shelters. We briefly see a room in the complex where a scientist that Kirk is talking to on the phone is and there are a lot of security men. The man tells them to go to shelters. Jiggs tells Kirk the complex will be clear in ten minutes. Kirk notices the techs still standing around and tells them to leave--that it is a direct order. In response, Jiggs tells him they are waiting for him, Dr. Swain and Dr. MacGregor to leave. Suddenly, as Kirk is proud, Ann gets a location on all five people in time and a shaky image. Zee is running for her life from another giant lizard--what looks like a dino called Triceratops but oddly different and more modern-lizard-like with fins atop its head. Some of this footage may be from Irwin Allen's 1960 THE LOST WORLD.
THE LOST WORLD wasn't the first movie to use lizards with their fins and horns stuck on them--a very cruel thing to do. This was done several other times in the past. ONE MILLION BC (1940) did this first and to the best effect--however it doesn't match the effects of Ray Harryhausen's animation nor today's cutting edge computer and model work. Footage from the original ONE MILLION BC (1940)--the film that did this to best effect other than Allen's THE LOST WORLD---was lifted and used in many other movies including: TWO LOST WORLDS (1950 and a very strange pirate-dinosaur-shipwrecked family movie!), UNTAMED WOMEN in 1952, (added to the old footage was footage of an armadillo), and KING DINOSAUR (1954), VALLEY OF THE DRAGONS (1961). There are others! In addition to all of that, Allen's own footage from his own THE LOST WORLD was used or imitated in VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA-TURN BACK THE CLOCK (along with the giant spider and many David Hedison scenes), TERROR ON DINOSAUR ISLAND (complete with Jill St. John's scream from THE LOST WORLD), NIGHT OF TERROR (with new footage of the lizard attacking the diving bell and the men), A TIME DO DIE (LOST WORLD footage on the bow, sir!), in LOST IN SPACE--THE KEEPER PART TWO (although this seemed to be new footage shot for the episode--we also see a few little lizards in PART ONE), LOST IN SPACE-THE SPACE PRIMEVALS and FLIGHT INTO THE FUTURE, and even in LAND OF THE GIANTS--THE CRASH which had the finned Tri-lizard for no apparent reason, NIGHTMARE (new footage), and THE SECRET CITY OF LIMBO (new footage but badly photographed and matted!). Add to this the fact that the footage in CHASE of the alligator dino was from the unaired pilot and this premise of using lizards for dinos has quite a credit listing! Thank goodness harming little lizards has stopped! I'm not saying any were harmed just that it looks kind of mean to stick fins and such on them.
We hear brief music from JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS which was used in LOST IN SPACE-THE HUNGRY SEA. Directly after that, we hear the Chariot storm music used at the beginning of the sea storm in HUNGRY SEA. The forest turns dark, more fogged, with lightning and wind rising. Neman falls into quicksand and calls for help. Tony and Doug hear him and run to the quicksand--Doug almost falling in. Tony pulls him back. They have to save him if they are to save the time tunnel. Doug makes an agreement--if they do save him he will tell them where the bomb is hidden. Tunnel begins to lose the image. Tony can't reach Neman or get him up when he does get to his hand. They use a vine spread out across and over the quicksand for Neman to climb out as each man holds one end. Tony calls: Swain, can you hear us? We have Neman. They get a stabilized image and keep losing it again but voice contact is good. As Neman goes to tell them where the bomb is located, Vokar arrives, "One more word Neman and you die." Vokar tells them they are all forbidden to speak.
Ray hears this and says, "I think we've lost our last chance."
Vokar is told by Doug about one million years of heredity--his humanity was bred out of him. Vokar will take them to the Masters and where the Masters expect them to be--to where he arrived.
Kirk tells the others in the complex to all go to the shelters now. They do.
Zee still runs from a dinosaur. It seems almost superfluous to have both Zee and Vokar along in the past--but I suppose they had to calm anyone's doubts as to her fate--had she remained in the future, her fate would most likely have been death. Several lines of Vokar could have been Zee's and vica versa.
Kirk gets Jiggs to round up all the others and leave. He goes over to Ann and Ray, who are still at their posts, "There's no hope." Ray stands up to leave but Ann stays at her post and puts her hand out to Ray, "General wait, five minutes please!" Kirk agrees, admitting he is cutting it to a hairline.
Two giant lizards fight in the most used and seen sequence ever in film and TV combined (of course Seaview hitting the bottom of the sea is first, if not combined)! We hear THE LAST WAGON music again! Neman runs off while the other three are watching the dinos fight. Vokar falls as Tony races after Neman. Doug gets his ray gun. Vokar, in his infinite wisdom, tells him that the third stud setting is for killing instantly--he wants to die since his leg seems to be broken. Vokar asks Doug why he doesn't kill him--it is his right. Doug tells him, "No man has the right to kill." This is true but it doesn't stop the time travellers (Tony mostly) from killing in other episodes! Oh, well kill or be killed (that's another story!). Doug explains that Vokar is a man or at least once was many years ago. Doug tells him he will help him, he doesn't like to leave anyone alone and hurt. When Vokar asks about "like" Doug tells him it is a feeling that gives you pleasure. Should I be writing this? As they make their way through the jungle, Doug comments on how he thinks Vokar's leg is not broken--only badly sprained.
Tony catches up to Neman and the pair fight but fall into a hole in the ground. They land inside a cell of some kind which has six sided designs in it. Zee arrives and as the three try to find out what happened to Tony and Neman, Tony warns them off--the ground is giving way. Sure, enough the trio also fall into the hole. We hear some LOST IN SPACE music (used many times but most recognizable as the music used in FOLLOW THE LEADER's intro scene teaser as John is first trapped in the cave before the credits). They find they are in a giant bee hive of some kind. Vokar explains his city was patterned after the cells of these extinct insects. They hear the bees, a swarm returning to the hive.
Act Four starts with the time tunnel trying to lock on and they do but they need 3 to 4 minutes of power build up to transfer all of them. They activate but cannot see them at all now--only hear them. Kirk calls and they hear him, Tony and Doug are heard by the tunnel staff (all three of them now!). Doug tries to get Neman to tell him about the bomb but the man is afraid. Vokar gets the ray gun from out of Doug's belt (getting strange here!) and points it at him and Tony. Then to Zee's smiling face, he points it at Neman, "Give him an answer," Vokar says flatly, "I like him." Uh-ho. This got past the censors thank goodness. Kirk is told by the boys about the bomb--Neman told them they would never find it but they can find the fuse it uses--a small bomb time fuse in a bus bar in the phase synchronizer console--just to their right! Why didn't they search that? Kirk goes to it with Ray and they open the bank. Kirk deactivates the fuse (will they find the bomb or just leave it wherever it is?). Kirk says they just made it---but will Tony and Doug. Ann hears the sound of bees. Kirk calls them and tells them he found the fuse and stopped the detonation. The image comes back again and Ann seems to get panicked, "They're caught in a giant beehive! We've got to get them out of now!" They can't transfer all five at once so Kirk suggests stretching the transmissions. Tony and Doug vanish in that familiar popping sound. Then Zee and Vokar. Where were they sent? To Tony and Doug's same location--the next episode (1287)? Are they in 1287? Or did the tunnel send them back to the future (catchy title that)? If so what would happen to them at the hands of the Master or the Magistrate? Would they lead a revolt or spread the feelings Tony and Doug (Doug mostly) gave to them? Nice ideas for fan written stories!
Kirk looks at the image and asks Ann if there is enough to transfer Neman. Neman appears to grab a net which is lying in the corner of the room--is this for cover or is this a lame attempt at special effects of bees covering and killing him. Ann frowns, "No." I think they sincerely sounded like they wanted to save him. The bees do cover Neman, evoking thoughts of the later THE SWARM. Also--the sequences of the tunnel personnel remind me of the similar later scenes used in the aired TV pilot version of CITY BENEATH THE SEA when the ladies and the other main characters stay at their posts while the Admiral orders them to leave during the approach of a deadly comet.
CLIFFHANGER: Tony and Doug are on the screen, watched by Ann, Ray, Kirk and others in the complex. The boys are flying through the vortex and land near haystacks after and as the familiar (and welcome) time travel music from the pilot is played. They get up and things move quickly: they are on a battlefield. Hearing shots, they run for cover at an old fashioned uncovered wagon which was overturned. The tunnel sees them. Doug checks a young soldier in blue--he's dead and looks like a mere teenager. Blasts from cannons force Tony and Doug to run. In what looks like a blooper but which fits in perfectly in their mad dash--Doug's hand hits one of the wagon's frame poles and it falls right off, nearly hitting or hitting James Darren as he runs behind Cobert! The blasts follow them in a very exciting and fast paced sequence. The boys hide near a broken and torn wooden white fence where a disabled cannon is on one wheel. They watch in wonder as a man in a long cape, hood, and wearing boots and gloves leads a giant white and black spotted mastiff on a chain, uttering something to the animal in Italian! There is stock footage as Union men run by, some with rifles and pistols, some rolling along cannons on carts. There is a wide open field, fires, smoke, Union men shooting and killing Confederate men, bomb blasts hitting Confederate men. Three Union men come running, blazing their guns away at pursuers. The leader--a Major, correctly figures Tony and Doug should retreat with him and his men. Shellfire riddles the area. Confederates come over the fence as the group runs, the Major (the always welcome and wonderful John Crawford) shoots one but a shell burst hits close to Tony and a young soldier! Tony is thrown forward onto his face! The other soldier helps the one who fell up. Doug had run ahead to another overturned wagon (or the same one?) and only then realized what happened. He runs back and gets Tony over to the wagon as the Major shoots more Confederates. When the Major rejoins Doug, who is holding an unmoving Tony, Doug tells him, "We need a doctor!" The Major tells him, "He's beyond any hope this world can give him now--he's dead!"
CHASE THROUGH TIME is easily one of the best episodes of THE TIME TUNNEL along with THE DEATH MERCHANT and what is probably the best THE DAY THE SKY FELL IN. CHASE THROUGH TIME is highly entertaining and of all the odd episodes with aliens and futuristic devices, it is the best. Not bad from the writer who also gave us some of the worst LOST IN SPACE episodes--TREASURE OF THE LOST PLANET and THE QUESTING BEAST (however awful those might be they can't come close to other terrible LOST IN SPACE episodes by other writers--like ROCKET TO EARTH and THE SPACE VIKINGS which both have almost no redeeming value at all!).
Raul Neman--killer, came to work in complex in 1967, had perfect cover, had leave of absence upcoming in 1968, worked for some foreign nation or company that wanted to destroy the Tic Toc lab--which has thousands of lives living in it; this means that Tic Toc is known to some organization who is still out there. He killed Dr. Alfred Styles (later Kirk calls him Upstyles) and planted a bomb in the tunnel to blow up at 3:05 AM on the morning he left. Neman feels he is overworked in One Million AD. He won favor with the masters, building a mechanism for time travel to spread the hive to all tribes. Neman planned to forget about those who hired him. Time travel was a lost art to the Masters. In a million years, he says, a thousand civilizations can rise and fall.
Worker Z24819-female drone worker who brings food to Tony and Doug, serves the Masters who provide, she tells Tony and Doug that in her time, there are workers and soldiers. The information she tells the two men lead them to believe they hit a time warp, allowing Neman to appear ten years before them. She has no concept of mother or father. She tells them her genes were selected by the Population Control Reservoir and treated by the Masters to make her fit for duty. They all work for the welfare of the hive--workers, soldiers, queens. She explains about purpose, the Magister, and the First Stage Reminders of the purpose (a ray gone blast). She also warns them of a forcefield that can injure them because she likes them. Neman tries to use her in his experiment, telling Tony and Doug her genes are defective. She carried a magnetic key to their forcefield.
Volkar-the protector of Neman in the year One Million AD. His sole job is to protect Neman. The time tunnel transfers Tony, Doug, Female Worker Z24819, Neman, and Volkar to One Million BC--the Pliocene Period (while 1 Million BC is correct for the Pliocene EPOCH it is not a period and also, in 1 Million BC there were no dinosaurs according to current research--HOWEVER some finds in Australia and Canada have found dinosaur footprint fossils with a human being's footprint inside the dino footprint! Tony or Doug's?). Of course, the dinosaur could have been a surviving Komodo dragon ancestor (and a rather big one at that!) or one of the dinos that made it to 1 Million BC--we may never know the real time line behind dinos and early man correctly. Back to Volkar---Tony and Doug, amid music from JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS and LOST IN SPACE's THE HUNGRY SEA---save Neman from a quicksand pit. Volkar arrests all three, including Neman, conditioned by a million years of heredity, Tony feeling his humanity has been bred out of him. When Doug gets Volkar's gun after the future man thought he had broken his leg, Doug spares him. Volkar's third setting on his gun is to kill. Volkar then learns of like and likes Doug, helping him against Neman. Why they couldn't allow the girl drone to be in the role instead of Volkar I don't know. It seemed a waste to have both of them in the past and I also hope Volkar doesn't like Doug too much.


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If the Brady girls could have put together an average quarter for the final eight minutes of the Sandhills Conference championship Friday night at home, they may have knocked off state-ranked Mullen.
But Brady only mustered five points in the fourth period against the Broncos and had to settle for the second-place trophy.
"It was a rough game both ways," said Eagle coach Lance Arterburn. "I still feel like we are just as good a team as they are. We just haven't found a way to beat them yet."
Brady trailed the Broncos 17-15 after the first quarter and was down eight points 33-25 at halftime.
Then the Eagles turned things around in the third period.
"We really did a good job of attacking the basket from the wings," Arterburn said.
Brady's defense stepped up its intensity as well in the third, holding Mullen to nothing more than a pair of free throws.
Heading into the final frame, the Eagles led 40-35.
"I felt good about how we were playing and where we stood going into the fourth quarter," Arterburn said.
But the lead dwindled quickly as Mullen poured on the pressure and Eagle players became tentative.
"All of a sudden we quit attacking like we had before," Arterburn said.
Once the Broncos regained the lead, it was theirs for good.
Maggie Burke led Brady with 14 points followed by Jessica Schrad with 10.
The Broncos improve to 14-3 on the season and move to No. 6 in Class D-2 while Brady moves to 13-4.
The Eagles gained their spot in the conference championship after defeating Sandhills-Thedford in the semi-finals 51-36.
The Knights, also state rated at No. 10 in Class D-1, chipped into the 12-point lead Brady held at halftime when the Eagles relaxed a bit too much in the third quarter.
"I thought our defense was great all night," Arterburn said. "We just didn't attack and we didn't shoot
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1. I don't think I can get away with charging more money for my group training program because the club is already charging $10 per person/per class.
2. I don't want to spend money to launch the group training program because we do not have the money in the budget.
3. We have to cancel some fee-based group training classes because the attendance is dropping.
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6. I do not know how to distinguish a fee-based group training program from our group exercise classes which are free.
Who are the individuals who are making these statements? Club owners, corporate executives, club fitness managers and fitness professionals.
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7. Coach their employees on how to manage the member experience.
8. Appreciate that club members are really educated consumers who will respond in a positive, receptive manner if, and only if, value is truly embedded in a new fee-based program.
9. Appreciate the need to incentivize their fitness professionals to make fee-based programs successful.
What determines the right price for group training? The "v" word—value. Several theories exist about how to determine value. The subjective theory of value is an economic theory that states that to possess value, an object or service must be useful and scarce. The extent of that value depends on the ability of an object or service to satisfy the wants and/or needs of any given individual. If the service is wanted, it has value. A service can be wanted, if we can guarantee specific but very different outcomes. If we create value in the eyes of the educated consumer, they will want it. If we make the service scarce enough or hard to find, the service becomes valuable. They will want the service.
The following are some components of value:
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Once the value proposition is established for the group training program, the price must be set. In some circles, clubs examine what other clubs and/or their competitors are charging for similar services. However, if your program is unique enough, you must determine and control the price points.
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Deep-pocketed alumni with generous school spirit have for years seen their donations commemorated by having their names formally attached to college coaching positions, especially in football.
That phenomenon arrived in Michigan last week, and love or hate it, it's not going away.
The University of Michigan's regents on Thursday approved a deal in which a $10 million endowment from an alumnus will include renaming the head football coach position as the "J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Head Football Coach."
Brady Hoke's job title gets that formal moniker starting March 1.
His colleagues' jobs may soon have similar names of donors, following a common trend in the Ivy League and at an increasing number of other universities.
"We likely will be doing this with other coaching positions," said UM athletics director David Brandon.
"I anticipate you'll see more and more of this throughout college sports as a logical way to provide recognition (to major donors)."
He declined to disclose details, but Brandon did confirm that he's been contacted about other possible endowments and coaching job names since the Harris family deal was announced Feb. 17.
Earnings from the endowment will cover at least a portion of Hoke's $300,000 base salary. His total compensation topped $4.1 million last season, including bonuses, media appearance fees and other money, according to USA Today's annual college football salary database. Not all is paid by the university.
The $10 million comes from the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Foundation.
Ira Harris, 75, graduated from UM in 1959, and the football team's locker room and a suite at Michigan Stadium are named for his family because of past donations.
Harris, who amassed his fortune as an investment banker specializing in corporate mergers and acquisitions, today is chairman of Palm Beach, Fla.-based financial consultancy J.I. Harris & Associates.
Brandon and his staff first suggested the idea of endowing and naming the coaching job a couple of years ago, Harris said.
"This seemed like an intriguing thing," Harris said.
Brandon said he and Chrissi Rawak, senior associate athletic director for development, came up with the naming convention.
"When we were talking to them about the magnitude of a gift of $10 million, we wanted to come up with a special, meaningful way to recognize (their support)," Brandon said. "(The position naming) seemed to resonate with them."
The idea wasn't radical. Brandon's own formal job title is the Donald R. Shepherd Director of Athletics.
Harris said he has been on UM's endowments investment committee for more than two decades, and serves the university in other advisory roles. He and his wife are on the steering committee for the university's $4 billion Victors for Michigan fundraising campaign.
"We've always had the belief a strong athletics program leverages the great academic strengths of the university. It really keeps the alumni involved," he said. "I hope it leads to more support in this capital campaign, and we can get other people to step up for other coaching positions."
Sports economists say athletic directors closely watch each other for revenue-generating ideas.
"Once it gets started, then everybody starts doing it. Managers are great imitators," said Brian Goff, an economics professor specializing in sports at Western Kentucky University.
Endowments also are a way to offset departmental spending that otherwise might be criticized, he said, because large football and basketball programs are essentially "marrying a professional sports entity to a university."
"Endowments are a means of trying to put a sort of better public relations banner on it," he said.
A Michigan man
Harris said he returns to Ann Arbor for games and investment committee meetings.
He and his family's donations over the years have funded student scholarships, professorships, named chairs, buildings, facilities, medical research, a sports journalism fellowship and a center for the study of corporate finance.
The Bronx-born Harris, who entered UM at age 16 and graduated at 20, joined Granbery Marache and Co., the predecessor of Chicago-based Blair and Co., in 1961 as a securities salesman.
He was hired by Salomon Bros. in 1968, and in 1988 became a senior partner at New Orleans-based Lazard Freres & Co. He launched his financial consulting firm in 1998.
While Harris will get his family's name on the coaching position — a formal name realistically expected to be used only in official university communications — his money doesn't buy influence: Whenever there's a coaching change, he doesn't get a say in the new hire because of the donation.
It "does not provide any access or influence as it related to personnel decisions," Brandon said.
A few good donors
Brandon is seeking more donors like Harris because of the need for money. Coaching naming rights are another way for athletics departments to generate cash, he said.
"What's taking off is the need for fundraising. All of our (Big Ten athletics) departments crave capital to build facilities to compete at the highest level," Brandon said. "All of these departments are out trying to maximize the opportunity to raise funding support. As you're thinking about the inventory of recognition opportunities, it's only natural to think about endowing positions."
UM's budget for its 31 sports programs in the current fiscal year ending June 30 is estimated at $146.4 million in revenue and $137.5 million in spending, for a projected $8.9 million surplus.
The Harris endowment will be invested as part of the university's wider $8.4 billion endowment, which is a pool of about 7,800 separate endowments known as the University Endowment Fund.
Endowment distributions in fiscal 2013 were about $276 million.
Raising revenue
Since Brandon's hiring as athletics director in 2010, the department has sought to modernize itself in a corporate fashion as it looks to raise money in the face of increasing operational expenses.
The department, which has drawn criticism for raising ticket prices and creating other revenue streams from fans, has received very high-profile donations and engaged in some of Michigan's largest capital projects.
The athletics department and business school are splitting $200 million pledged to the university in September by Stephen Ross, a 1962 UM graduate whose cumulative $313 million given is the most from anyone in school history.
The money will be used to pay for capital projects on what's now known as the Stephen M. Ross Athletic Campus.
The regents in November approved a $6 million plan to build an 18,000-square-foot operations center to move into one building most of the athletic department's behind-the-scenes support work, such as maintenance shops, offices, laundry, shipping and receiving and equipment storage.
The regents in May approved a $13.5 million field hockey stadium and team center, along with smaller projects such as $2.55 million to replace grass at the baseball and softball fields with synthetic turf.
In March, the regents approved $5.3 million to build the three-story, 10,200-square-foot Donald R. Shepherd Softball Center.
Other projects green-lighted by in recent years include $72 million in improvements, repairs and expansion of Crisler Center; $16 million in renovations for Yost Ice Arena; and a $226 million renovation of Michigan Stadium that was completed in 2011.
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The love affair between young voters and President Barack Obama that ignited his candidacy in 2008 and powered him to the White House seems like a distant memory in 2012.
As Election Day approaches, there's an enthusiasm gap among young voters. New polling from Harvard University's Institute of Politics found that just 48 percent of voters under age 30 say they'll definitely vote in November. Four years ago that figure was much higher, at 72 percent, according to a Pew Research Center study at the time.
Absent the national anger over the Iraq War and the sense of history that came from electing the nation's first African-American president in 2008, young voters can't seem to find their motivation this time.
"When I talk to young people who aren't as passionate, who aren't as enthusiastic about the November election, they talk about it in those terms," said John Della Volpe, the polling director at Harvard's politics institute. "2008 was an historical event. They needed to participate, even if politics wasn't important to them, to say that they were there, that they had a hand in changing the course of America. It's kind of like our parents, perhaps, saying they were at Woodstock in 1969."
After securing the Democratic nomination four years ago, Obama won two out of three general election voters ages 18-29. That strong support helped him flip North Carolina, Indiana and Virginia from red to blue.
"Those three states in particular, if not for the margin he ran up in the youth vote, he loses," Della Volpe said.
But recent polling by the Pew Research Center found that only half of voters under 30 are even certain they're registered to vote this year. That's the lowest percentage in 16 years. And just 61 percent are highly engaged in the 2012 elections, compared with 75 percent at the same time in 2008.
With the exception of some recent college campus speaking events, neither Obama nor Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has focused much attention on young voters, said Heather Smith, the president of Rock the Vote, a nonpartisan group set up to mobilize the political power of young voters.
"If you register young people so they can vote and you engage them in a conversation on their issues and you ask them to show up, they respond," she said. "It's just that there has been a lot less of that leading up to the elections than there was four years ago."
Part of the problem is that the anti-war and environmental themes that excited young people in 2008 have given way to concerns about Medicare, tax policy and health care, which have never been high priorities for twentysomething voters.
"There's just so much focus on programs that deal with older citizens," said Olivia Adams, a 20-year-old sophomore at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. "Even the stuff about the economy is really focused more on people who (have) full-time jobs, not people who are in school who'll have jobs in the future."
Campus enthusiasm for the president has been noticeably absent.
"In the last election, students seemed to be the foundation of his campaign," Adams said. "And this year, honestly, I haven't seen anything on campus."
That could be trouble for Democrats, who've won young voters by significant margins over Republicans since 2004, according to CIRCLE, the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, at Tufts University near Boston.
While voters overall favored Republican candidates for the House of Representatives by 52 percent to 45 percent in 2010, those under age 30 favored Democrats by 55-42 percent, according to the National Election Pool 2010 exit poll.
That trend continues with Obama leading Romney by 19 points among likely voters under age 30, according to the Harvard poll. But it also found that young Romney supporters are 10 percent more likely than young Obama supporters to say they'll definitely vote next month.
"When young voters voted for Barack Obama in 2008, they didn't think 'hope' would mean 'hope to move out of my parents' basement,' " Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said. "Half of recent college graduates can't even find work and realize it's going to take a new president to get this economy going again."
Obama supporters admit that the dynamics of the election are vastly different from those in 2008, when the Democratic primary campaign lasted 18 months, giving young voters more time to register and to kick the tires on each candidate.
But Obama campaign spokeswoman Clo Ewing said they measured "support and enthusiasm by what we're seeing on the ground: with our volunteers, our large voter-registration advantage and an unrivaled grass-roots organization."
In 2008, young African-Americans had the highest turnout rate of any youth demographic group since 1972, CIRCLE reported. The trend continued in 2010, when young blacks voted at a rate of 27.5 percent, compared with 25 percent for young whites and roughly 18 percent for young Hispanics and Asian-Americans, according to a CIRCLE analysis of census data.
This year, the Harvard survey found that young African-Americans are – again – more likely to vote than whites and Hispanics are.
With Pell grants, student loans and interest rates on his mind, 21-year-old Anre Washington is typical of black millennial voters – teens and twentysomethings – who are closely following the presidential election. A senior sociology major at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Washington helps register voters on campus and is eager to cast his first presidential vote.
Recently, he organized a presidential debate-watching event that drew more than 200 students at the historically black university.
"It was so quiet in there you could hear a pin drop," Washington said of the rapt audience. "People were holding on to every word."
But voting takes a back seat to survival in many U.S. neighborhoods; including those not far from the Morehouse campus, where youth unemployment is high and people struggle in the aftermath of the Great Recession.
An estimated 42 percent of young people nationally didn't finish high school or failed to continue their education after graduation, CIRCLE found. In 2010, these young people were roughly half as likely to vote as those with some college experience.
That disengagement is why Rob "Biko" Baker, the executive director of the League of Young Voters, held a youth voter-awareness event in Atlanta recently, after similar events in other big cities, as part of the league's national "Ignite 2012" campaign. They drew an eclectic array of urban artists, activists and celebrities to discuss the importance of young people voting and taking leadership roles in their communities.
"We're engaging a demographic that no one's touching," Baker said. "If you want people to pay attention to the election while they're struggling to make it and you haven't reached out to them, then you can't blame that on the consumer."
Eighteen- to 29-year-olds typically have the lowest voter-turnout rate of all age groups, yet voting at a young age is crucial to becoming consistent voters later in life. But politics can be intimidating for young people who haven't participated before.
To make politics more accessible – and lighten things up – thousands of young people in 84 cities in 32 states will don costumes and go door-to-door on Halloween urging residents to vote as part of the national "Trick or Vote" event, sponsored by the Bus Federation, a nonpartisan youth organization based in Portland, Ore.
Participants, who typically range in age from 16 to 30, hope to reach 100,000 households, federation executive director Matt Singer said. The group also has done voter-registration efforts on skates, dressed as pink bunnies and even in robot costumes, all with the idea of making politics more approachable for young people.
"Politics is like a party," Singer said. "And if you don't invite people to the party, you shouldn't be shocked when they don't show up. We need to invite more people to the party."


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India's second biggest carrier Jet Airways, close to a tie-up with Abu Dhabi's
Etihad Airways, swung to a quarterly profit of 850 million rupees ($15.98m) on Friday on lower costs and rising fares in an under-serviced
Jet shares have almost doubled in the past three months as Etihad's plans to
pick up a stake in the airline have become clearer.
The Jet deal, if closed, will be the first since India relaxed ownership
rules in September last year and allowed foreign carriers to buy up to 49
percent in domestic carriers that are battling stiff competition and high
operating costs.
Jet's earnings surprised analysts, who according to Thomson Reuters,
were expecting a profit of 278.5 million rupees. It was the third straight
quarter it has exceeded estimates.
The October-December earnings were a sharp turn around from a 1.01 billion
rupees loss from a year earlier.
Pricing power in the market has improved leading to a 17.1 percent jump in
yields - a measure of average revenue per passenger - and that is likely to
continue, Jet said in a statement to the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Kingfisher Airlines, controlled by liquor baron Vijay Mallya and once India's
No. 2 carrier, has stopped flying since the start of October, allowing other
carriers to raise fares on key routes.
Budget carrier SpiceJet, which is also in talks with foreign airlines to sell
a stake, swung to a quarterly profit at the end of 2012, and said it would
target a bigger slice of revenue from international flights in the
Fiercely competitive Indian carriers are struggling under massive debt, as
they have to sell tickets below-cost in a market marred by high taxes on fuel
and high airport charges.
"We continue in our endeavour on cost cutting measures, exploring various
avenues of ancillary revenues and process improvements across all segments of
the business, which will help us improve the business further," chief executive
Nikos Kardassis said in a statement.
Jet has discontinued flying to many loss-making routes in the past few
months, which sometimes meant aircraft getting grounded "in the short term," and
that hurt revenue by 550 million rupees, Jet said.
Top executives from Gulf carrier Etihad and Jet met Indian civil aviation
minister Ajit Singh and Trade minister Anand Sharma on Thursday, in a sign that
a deal is likely to be announced soon.
"Pursuant to the announcement of liberalised FDI (foreign direct investment)
policy permitting foreign investment in Indian airline, the company is in
discussion with a reputed airline for a strategic investment in the company,"
Jet said on Friday.
Jet expects to finalise a stake sale deal with Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways in
a week or so, an executive at the airline, who declined to be named,
The terms of the possible deal have not been disclosed, but a government
source said earlier this month Etihad was in talks to pick up a 24 percent stake
in Jet for up to $330m.
Any deal between an Indian carrier and a foreign airline has to be cleared by
the Indian government.
Jet shares closed 0.32 percent up at 623.30 rupees on the National Stock
Exchange, outperforming the broader market which fell 0.57 percent.
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Livingston Parish School Board president arrested in fatal hit and run
State police have arrested the president of the Livingston Parish School Board after a 21-year-old Mississippi man was killed in a hit-and-run in St. Helena Parish.
Trooper First Class Melissa Matey says the accident occurred shortly before 5 a.m. Saturday when William Iasigi, of Liberty, Miss., was driving south on La. Highway 43 South.
Matey says Iasigi stopped his pickup in the middle of the road, got out and was struck by another pickup driven by 65-year-old Malcolm Sibley of Walker.
Troopers booked Sibley into St. Helena Parish Jail on a count of felony hit-and-run at 9:40 a.m. Sunday. Jail officials say Sibley posted bail and was released.
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